Masanori Hata, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Masanori Hata

Japanese zoologist, essayist, and filmmaker

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1935

Place of Birth: Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Profession: screenwriter, businessperson, zoologist, film director, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Masanori Hata

  • Masanori Hata (? ??, Hata Masanori) (born April 17, 1935) is a Japanese zoologist, essayist, and filmmaker.
  • A popular essayist under the pen name Mutsugoro, he was awarded the Kikuchi Kan Prize for his writing in 1977.
  • He is perhaps best known in the West as the director and screenwriter of the 1986 film The Adventures of Milo and Otis. Hata was born in Fukuoka Prefecture and graduated from the Faculty of Biology at Tokyo University in 1958, and went on to complete a master's degree in 1959.
  • Trained as a zoologist, he worked as a documentary filmmaker producing nature films.
  • He moved to the eastern coast of Hokkaido to establish the Mutsugoro Animal Kingdom nature preserve, where he and his family live with over 300 wild and domestic animals.
  • He is the author of over 100 books, including collections of his Mutsugoro essays on nature such as Warera dobutsu mina kyodai (All of Us Animals Are Brothers and Sisters, 1967) and Mutsogoro no hakubutsushi (Mutsugoro's Natural History, 1975).Over four years, Hata and associate director Kon Ichikawa shot 400,000 feet of film at the Mutsugoro Animal Kingdom.
  • The resulting film, about the adventures of an orange tabby cat and a fawn pug, was released by Toho in 1986 as Koneko Monogatari (????, A Kitten's Story) and was the highest-grossing film of the year in Japan, taking in about $36 million.
  • It was shown that year at the Cannes Film Festival as The Adventures of Chatran.
  • For US distribution by Columbia Pictures, it was cut down from 90 to 76 minutes and narration in English by Dudley Moore was added.
  • It was released in 1989 as The Adventures of Milo and Otis.

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